Helping Out in Piura, Peru
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Over the past month, unseasonal rain in Peru has brutally affected Peru's northern region of Piura and has left it in a state of emergency.
Raging rivers and huge mudslides have displaced over 700,000 people and more than 100 have been killed. Piura is truly in a state of disaster, and the rain and flooding are predicted to continue through April. There is a real sense of desperation.
A group of graduates from Thunderbird School of Global Management, bonded together over email to discuss how we could help. Many Thunderbirds have connections to Peru and some 25 of us have lived and worked in Piura, particularly, as part of our TEM Lab experience and we have personal connections to the region.
We created this GoFundMe page as an opportunity to quickly provide a way to collect donations and send it to those affected in Peru. After GoFundMe's processing fees, the funds from this gofundme campaign will be distributed in two ways:
50% will be sent to Choice Humanitarian, an organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and which already has boots on the ground in Piura.
What is CHOICE doing right now with the money they are receiving from donations?
1. Assembling Hygiene Kits (so people can cover their basic hygiene needs)
2. Distributing medicine to people
3. Buying tablets to purify water and make it potable
4. Moving people out of Piura, since many houses have been destroyed and people don´t have a place to stay.
What is CHOICE providing to people?
Mosquito nets (to protect people from mosquito diseases such as malaria)
Flashlights
Baby diapers and hygienic towels for women
Insect repellent
Personal Hygiene kits
Towels
Breakfast meals (milk, sugar, bread, etc.)
First-need medicine such as antibiotics, thermometers.
Metal roofs to put on people’s houses in order to avoid further inundation
The other half of the funds will be sent to a fellow Thunderbird graduate, Zachary Gerdts, who is also already distributing supplies directly in Piura with money he is already raising from friends. He has been personally been working with a local group to bring food, water, hygiene products, tents, sleeping bags, sheets and other needed supplies into bajo Piura and particularly around Catacaos where people have lost everything.
Zak has provided his own truck with the items he personally donated and those purchased with donor money, and then use any extra capacity to help transport the group's donations. This has worked out nicely because the group provides organization and some security to ensure aid gets into the hands of the people who need it most. To create transparency he has been taking photographs of receipts and the distribution of supplies.
Contact Information for Zachary Gerdts:
Zak Gerdts
Urb. Ignacio Merino Etapa l
Mza. O Lote 7
Piura, Piura, Piura
Perú
Phone (Dialed from USA & WhatsApp):
+1 [phone redacted]
Peru:
+51 975 937 393
Email Address: zakgerdts@global.t-bird.edu
Contact Information for Choice Humanitarian:
Name: Choice Humanitarian
Website: http://www.choicehumanitarian.org/
Contact info in Peru:
Mgtr. Wilmer Cruz LaMadrid |Director General de Proyectos Perú
Address in Peru:
Jr. La Libertad 468. Dpto 301 - Piura, Perú
Phone numbers:
Office: +51-73-625126 / RPM #990737811 Cel: +51-990737811
E-mail:
[email redacted]
It is also possible to contribute directly to Zak or Choice Humanitarian if you so wish, contact us for wire transfer information.
In an effort to be as transparent as possible, this is how the funds will be handled:
Funds received will be split 50-50 between CHOICE International and Zak Gerdts, a Tbird currently in Piura. We have direct bank wire information for both. We have a high degree of confidence in the transparency and effectiveness of efforts, our two main criteria, with a high emphasis on the ability to take speedy action. Zak and CHOICE are essentially out there every day using whatever money and supplies they can to aid people.
The need always outstrips supply, so whatever we can get there will help, and it will go directly to people who need it. Zak will keep a paper trail of photographed receipts to increase transparency, and CHOICE is a registered non-profit with a good history of being effective. Both are engaged daily with the relief effort. We will provide regular, weekly updates.
GoFundMe pays out every two weeks. To rush aid to the region in this sensitive time, Santiago Peralta has offered to front whatever money is raised by 9am Friday morning April 7, via wire transfers to CHOICE and Zak.
Whatever we raise after this first week will be sent to Piura when the GoFundMe site pays it back out (after reimbursing Santiago for the amount he fronts this week). We will post the documentation of those transactions to the group.
Please donate and share! Thank you!
http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-peru-floods-20170328-story.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/peru-floods-victims-tegel-1.4049745
http://reliefweb.int/map/peru/piura-peru-flood-situation-30032017-delineation-map-monitoring-1
GoFundMe Page created by:
Jennifer Eagar, Thunderbird Class of 2014
1-602-492-7945
jenni@global.t-bird.edu
Raging rivers and huge mudslides have displaced over 700,000 people and more than 100 have been killed. Piura is truly in a state of disaster, and the rain and flooding are predicted to continue through April. There is a real sense of desperation.
A group of graduates from Thunderbird School of Global Management, bonded together over email to discuss how we could help. Many Thunderbirds have connections to Peru and some 25 of us have lived and worked in Piura, particularly, as part of our TEM Lab experience and we have personal connections to the region.
We created this GoFundMe page as an opportunity to quickly provide a way to collect donations and send it to those affected in Peru. After GoFundMe's processing fees, the funds from this gofundme campaign will be distributed in two ways:
50% will be sent to Choice Humanitarian, an organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and which already has boots on the ground in Piura.
What is CHOICE doing right now with the money they are receiving from donations?
1. Assembling Hygiene Kits (so people can cover their basic hygiene needs)
2. Distributing medicine to people
3. Buying tablets to purify water and make it potable
4. Moving people out of Piura, since many houses have been destroyed and people don´t have a place to stay.
What is CHOICE providing to people?
Mosquito nets (to protect people from mosquito diseases such as malaria)
Flashlights
Baby diapers and hygienic towels for women
Insect repellent
Personal Hygiene kits
Towels
Breakfast meals (milk, sugar, bread, etc.)
First-need medicine such as antibiotics, thermometers.
Metal roofs to put on people’s houses in order to avoid further inundation
The other half of the funds will be sent to a fellow Thunderbird graduate, Zachary Gerdts, who is also already distributing supplies directly in Piura with money he is already raising from friends. He has been personally been working with a local group to bring food, water, hygiene products, tents, sleeping bags, sheets and other needed supplies into bajo Piura and particularly around Catacaos where people have lost everything.
Zak has provided his own truck with the items he personally donated and those purchased with donor money, and then use any extra capacity to help transport the group's donations. This has worked out nicely because the group provides organization and some security to ensure aid gets into the hands of the people who need it most. To create transparency he has been taking photographs of receipts and the distribution of supplies.
Contact Information for Zachary Gerdts:
Zak Gerdts
Urb. Ignacio Merino Etapa l
Mza. O Lote 7
Piura, Piura, Piura
Perú
Phone (Dialed from USA & WhatsApp):
+1 [phone redacted]
Peru:
+51 975 937 393
Email Address: zakgerdts@global.t-bird.edu
Contact Information for Choice Humanitarian:
Name: Choice Humanitarian
Website: http://www.choicehumanitarian.org/
Contact info in Peru:
Mgtr. Wilmer Cruz LaMadrid |Director General de Proyectos Perú
Address in Peru:
Jr. La Libertad 468. Dpto 301 - Piura, Perú
Phone numbers:
Office: +51-73-625126 / RPM #990737811 Cel: +51-990737811
E-mail:
[email redacted]
It is also possible to contribute directly to Zak or Choice Humanitarian if you so wish, contact us for wire transfer information.
In an effort to be as transparent as possible, this is how the funds will be handled:
Funds received will be split 50-50 between CHOICE International and Zak Gerdts, a Tbird currently in Piura. We have direct bank wire information for both. We have a high degree of confidence in the transparency and effectiveness of efforts, our two main criteria, with a high emphasis on the ability to take speedy action. Zak and CHOICE are essentially out there every day using whatever money and supplies they can to aid people.
The need always outstrips supply, so whatever we can get there will help, and it will go directly to people who need it. Zak will keep a paper trail of photographed receipts to increase transparency, and CHOICE is a registered non-profit with a good history of being effective. Both are engaged daily with the relief effort. We will provide regular, weekly updates.
GoFundMe pays out every two weeks. To rush aid to the region in this sensitive time, Santiago Peralta has offered to front whatever money is raised by 9am Friday morning April 7, via wire transfers to CHOICE and Zak.
Whatever we raise after this first week will be sent to Piura when the GoFundMe site pays it back out (after reimbursing Santiago for the amount he fronts this week). We will post the documentation of those transactions to the group.
Please donate and share! Thank you!
http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-peru-floods-20170328-story.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/peru-floods-victims-tegel-1.4049745
http://reliefweb.int/map/peru/piura-peru-flood-situation-30032017-delineation-map-monitoring-1
GoFundMe Page created by:
Jennifer Eagar, Thunderbird Class of 2014
1-602-492-7945
jenni@global.t-bird.edu
Organizer and beneficiary
Jennifer Eagar
Organizer
Glendale, AZ
Santiago Peralta
Beneficiary